Hello, Bette! The return of legendary performer Bette Midler to the Broadway stage in Hello, Dolly! just made history. With ticket sales totaling $9,082,496 over the weekend, the upcoming revival officially broke the record for best first day of sales in the history of Broadway. "We are thrilled with the tremendous response from Hello, Dolly! ticket-buyers. The combination of this show and Bette Midler has proven irresistible to theatergoers," Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel, Chairman and President of The Shubert organization, respectively, said in a statement to People. Midler will play the title role in the Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman musical,...
- 9/19/2016
- by Brianne Tracy, @BrianneTracy
- PEOPLE.com
She’s lookin’ swell, fellas! Bette Midler’s anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” broke the record for most first-day ticket sales for any Broadway show in history, totaling $9.08 million. Looks like Midler and the matchmaking Dolly are a match made in heaven. It was announced earlier this year that Midler will fill she shoes of Carol Channing (who won a Tony for originating the titular Dolly in 1964) and Barbra Streisand (who brought the role to the big screen in 1969) as the now-iconic matchmaker and New York socialite Dolly. Apparently we’re not the only ones who get giddy thinking about Midler bringing the house down with “When the Parade Passes By!” Under the direction of Jerry Zaks, Tony winner David Hyde Pierce will join Midler on the Shubert Theatre stage as Horace Vandergelder. It was announced last week that alongside this leading duo will be Kate Baldwin, Gavin Creel,...
- 9/19/2016
- backstage.com
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